Matthew Murray, the Englewood man who shot and killed four people and wounded three others at churches in Colorado Springs and Arvada last week, was baptized into the Mormon church a year ago, Salt Lake City TV station KSL News reported.

Murray shot four missionaries, killing two, at a Youth with Mission Center in Arvada, then shot and killed two sisters and wounded their father in the parking lot at New Life Church in Colorado Springs 12 hours later.

Prior to the shootings, he posted anti-religion messages online before the shootings. But a year ago, he welcomed religion in his life, according to one man who taught Murray about the Latter-day Saint faith.

A.J. Ormond was there the day Murray was baptized, and he said he immediately noticed a change. Murray seemed happy, calm, at peace, Ormond told KSL-TV.

That demeanor changed dramatically in just a year. “I think everybody goes through ‘Is there anything I could have done? Anything?’,” Ormond said in an interview with KSL-TV.

Ormond met Murray in November 2006 in Colorado. Murray wanted to learn more about the LDS church. Ormond and his wife worked with the missionaries in their ward.

“I think he was interested in learning about all religions, trying to figure out what fit him and his beliefs and finding somewhere where he could fit in,” Ormond said.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a statement confirming “Matthew Murray of Englewood, Colorado, was baptized about a year ago.”

Ormond describes Murray as polite and friendly, a young man who, despite his family’s protests, was seriously contemplating devoting his life to the LDS Church.

Murray’s experience with the LDS Church culminated with his baptism. Soon after, he stopped going to church.

A little more than a year later, Murray was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot to his head following a shootout with a security guard.

Ormond told KSL-TV that he immediately recognized Murray’s picture when it was splashed on TV. “It was obvious that it wasn’t the person we had known that had committed those shootings and those murders.”